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  1. science is more "hmmm" than "EUREAKA!" on White Noise Video on YouTube Hit By Five Copyright Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That brings to mind chapter 3 of Lem's "His Master's Voice" where Swanson was sued because his random number tables weren't as random as he purported them to be.

    Also, the estate of John Cage just took an interest...

  2. Re:How dire is it really? on Oceans Suffocating as Huge Dead Zones Quadruple Since 1950, Scientists Warn (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, I'd be pleasantly amazed if his administration would just acknowledge market realities instead of pandering to people who can't math.

  3. Republicans gonna republicate on The FCC Is Preparing To Weaken the Definition of Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    and ketchup counts as a vegetable on school lunches!

  4. DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run! on Amazon's YouTube Workaround on Fire TV Works Just Fine (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Youtube ain't done until Fire won't run!


    The land was stalked by monsters back in those days...

  5. These civil forfeiture cases usually involve a suit against the anonymous assets, so most likely somewhere on some docket is "The United States vs some very long number".
    JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST ON A POGOSTICK YOU'VE ALL GONE GODDAMNED INSANE.

  6. it's not 10.000,00 lbs of ham... on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy hasn't had his trial yet.
    What they should do is hold onto the seized assets. Return them to him if he is found not guilty, do what the law allows if he is found guilty.

  7. goats A, B, where's C ? on What Disney's Acquisition of Fox Means For the Future of Film and TV (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    took a gamble and clicked that link, and lost.

  8. where's James Burke when you really need him? on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not impressed unless you can trace it back to the average width of a Roman horse's ass.

  9. HAW HAW! /Nelson on Patreon Scraps New Service Fee, Apologizes To Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Ted Nelson says, I told you so, bitches! I'll have a solution sometime in the Fall of 2079.

  10. don't know, don't care on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 1

    So if it's flying, and I can't be bothered to look up from my iShiney in order to identify it, it's a AFO (Apathetical Flying Object)?

  11. the facebook twins are bitcoin billionaires

    You left out a word...

  12. it's all a bullshit shuck on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Every president promises some "big space plan" to try to show that they have "Vision".
    Doesn't mean shit unless Congress also provides funding.


    At this point NASA should be like kickstarter, they determine a set of prioritized goals, and however much Congress puts into their accounts determines how many of those goals can be achieved. That would also show how pathetically low our funding commitment is to space science.

  13. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 2

    I apologize for my vile slander accusing Canananadians of conspiring to use bitcoin to secretly increase global warming.
    After further consideration, bitcoin is obviously an evil plot by the Big Entropy lobby to accelerate the heat death of the universe.

  14. paging Judge Doom: on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't hear the long drawn-out guitar string twang each time the wires swung around?

  15. Re:Not gonna fly on Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    weird way of putting it,
    but 1,073,741,824 is divisible by 2 32 times while 1,000,000,000 is divisible by 2 only 9 times.
    So if a number is even if it is divisible by 2, it would reason it is more even if it is divisible by 2 more than once. In this case 1,073,741,824 is 23 times more even than 1,000,000,000. Or is that 32/9 times more even?
    I think I need to go lie down for a spell.

  16. Re:The pedantry is strong with this one. on Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Kryptocurrency is just nerdspeak for dogecoin.

  17. I SEE WHAT YOU'RE UP TO on Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a goddamned sneaky backdoor pogrom against FABULOUSNESS!

  18. Re:Maybe I should get into this mining thing... on Bitcoin Tumbles From Record High After Exchanges Confirm Outage · · Score: 0

    Bitcoin is a Cananadian global warming conspiracy.
    Careful or you'll fry the planet!

    Also - not convertible to Flooze or Beenz, so obviously a bunch of useless pikers.

  19. had my identity stolen so many times, I'm nobody on Sensitive Personal Information of 246,000 DHS Employees Found on Home Computer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    If breaches like this keep up, pretty soon we're all going to be anonymous.

  20. Re:I WANT THE TRUTH! on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That comment is factually incorrect.

  21. Whoops, the dead media list at Bruce Stirling's Dead Media Project 404s.

    Luckilly, Archive.Org is on the case!

  22. PC LOAD BOULDER? WTF?!! on HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware On Its PCs, Users Say (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If he wisely invested in a Trebuchet Laser printer, he wouldn't have to constantly buy overpriced black powder cartridges just to have them run out two days before taxes are due.

  23. that time it was the "audio driver" on HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware On Its PCs, Users Say (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    wow, actually that was only May of this year

  24. same as it ever was on HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware On Its PCs, Users Say (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the same garbage telemetry that HP "forgot" to disable by default a few years ago?

  25. Re:The * is at a crossroads. on Tumblr Is Tumbling (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely Millennials are killing Tumbler...